1. Influence of socioeconomic factors on delays, management and outcome amongst patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention
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Eric Eeckhout, Andrew J. Ludman, Olivier Muller, Nathalie Lauriers, and Stephane Fournier
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Time Factors ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Myocardial Infarction ,Time-to-Treatment ,Cohort Studies ,Tertiary Care Centers ,Percutaneous Coronary Intervention ,medicine ,Humans ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Educational Status ,Emigration and Immigration/statistics & numerical data ,Female ,Marital Status/statistics & numerical data ,Middle Aged ,Myocardial Infarction/mortality ,Myocardial Infarction/therapy ,Percutaneous Coronary Intervention/statistics & numerical data ,Retrospective Studies ,Socioeconomic Factors ,Switzerland ,Time-to-Treatment/statistics & numerical data ,Treatment Outcome ,Myocardial infarction ,Socioeconomic status ,Marital Status ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,Percutaneous coronary intervention ,Retrospective cohort study ,General Medicine ,Emigration and Immigration ,medicine.disease ,Emergency medicine ,Physical therapy ,Marital status ,business ,Fibrinolytic agent ,Cohort study - Abstract
The outcome after primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is strongly affected by time delays. In this study, we sought to identify the impact of specific socioeconomic factors on time delays, subsequent STEMI management and outcomes in STEMI patients undergoing pPCI, who came from a well-defined region of the French part of Switzerland. A total of 402 consecutive patients undergoing pPCI for STEMI in a large tertiary hospital were retrospectively studied. Symptom-to-first-medical-contact time was analysed for the following socioeconomic factors: level of education, origin and marital status. Main exclusion criteria were: time delay beyond 12 hours, previous treatment with fibrinolytic agents or patients immediately referred for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Therefore, 222 patients were finally included. At 1 year, there was no difference in mortality between the different socioeconomic groups. Furthermore, there was no difference in management characteristics between them. Symptom-to-first-medical-contact time was significantly longer for patients with a low level of education, Swiss citizens and unmarried patients, with median differences of 23 minutes, 18 minutes and 13 minutes, respectively (p
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- 2013
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